[News] Calgary, Alberta, & CSEC agree in principle to $1.223bn Event Centre + infrastructure

[Redlan]

Originally Posted by Muta

Yeah the 'falling concrete' story is tabloid-esque at best. The Saddledome wouldn't be in use if it was deemed to be structurally unsafe. In fact, it would be condemned if so, like that apartment building in Kensington recently was (and then demolished).

Do you know why things are called accidents? Because they are unexpected events. Also, this has the same vibe as: "This is why this is all so strange, you never, ever would have expected [this]" - former classmate of Matthew de Grood.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Redlan

Do you know why things are called accidents? Because they are unexpected events. Also, this has the same vibe as: "This is why this is all so strange, you never, ever would have expected [this]" - former classmate of Matthew de Grood.

Uhhhh... what? lol

[PepsiFree]

I like that the theory of the Saddledome being immediately dangerous to the point that an accident could happen at any moment killing multiple people is being used as a defence for spending taxpayer money to build a new arena over the next 3-5 years…

…and not as a reason the City should immediately condemn it or CSEC should stop requiring staff to be there and letting thousands of members of the public in almost daily.

We’re in the realm of geniuses.

[jayswin]

Yeah I laughed at that line of defense, too. Gotta give us money now, and your stupid citizens need to pray you didn't give us this money three years too late!

[topfiverecords]

We’re one Stone slapper gone wild from the whole Saddledome coming down.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

We’re one Stone slapper gone wild from the whole Saddledome coming down.

The Scotiabank Thunderdome

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Well, I have a very loud concert at the dome coming up to go to.

Praying the acts don't rock so hard that they literally bring the place down.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

Well, I have a very loud concert at the dome coming up to go to.

Praying the acts don't rock so hard that they literally bring the place down.

Don’t worry, by agreeing to a deal the City has stayed the vengeful spirit of the Saddledome until the new arena opens. Nothing can happen to you under the protection of a public subsidy.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

If you don’t have kids, no, you will never understand the love a parent feels for their child. You can still love just fine, but it is different, I promise you.

The psychopaths I’m referring to are people that have kids and love other things more than them. Or don’t love them at all.

That’s ####ed.

The hilarious thing is that there are parents that love the #### out of their kids out there and yet because no one ever gave them any real, honest parenting 101, the way they went about parenting ends up traumatizing their kids deeply.

And many parents take offence at even the hint of a suggestion that they didn't perform brilliantly at the role (see: every teacher in the school system ever).

No, parenting doesn't put you on another level of enlightenment from an average, non-parent human. It just opened up a new can of problems somewhat unique to those who've decided to parent or happened upon it by ineffective birth control or drunken negligence. And sure, you learned the value of loving something more than life itself, and that's cool. But in many, many cases it was in fact toxic love with excessively controlling behaviour (or unconscious emotion negligence due to replication of faulty parenting styles from the parents' parents) that passed on generational traumas and toxic behaviors to child/children.

Outside of the exceptional case of a happy accident where a new pair of new parent were raised brilliantly by secure and non-toxic, loving individuals and replicated that effectively in their offspring, chances are the parenthood was very messy and something that was merely endured while essentially shooting in dark on many things, even with the best of intentions.

To tout oneself as a tier above people who opted for non parenting paths because one grinded out a C-grade 18-25 year kid project where they've likely imprinted a number of damaging deep seeded traumas in their offspring and left them to work them our on their own is hardly something to brag about.

Heck of an experience though, I'm sure.

If you're that one epic parent who did it right though, yes, that person deserves boat loads of praise and respect.

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

People are excluded in fields like medicine and engineering because there are actual consequences when those professionals #### up on the job.

The people that don’t get into medical school on the first try and come back and get it in round 2 will be better physicians for that experience.

The problem is not “medical school is too expensive. Ergo, we don’t have enough doctors.”

The problem is we are not producing enough people.


These high value high responsibility positions go to the best and brightest among your population. If you have to outsource those jobs it is because your society is not producing enough new people to internally, fill the best and brightest quota.

Canada’s birth rate has declined every year since 2009.

That’s devastating.

You're incorrect about med school. I know multiple doctors that didn't get in on their first try and they literally didn't do anything other get another interview and get in on the second try. They aren't better for it, they just had a better interview or others had a worse interview etc.

Nursing is very difficult to get into, yet we need nurses. Do you think that someone with a 3.75 GPA is way worse than someone with a 3.8?

Open more seats, it's really not complicated.

We don't have need to outsource these positions, we're being lazy.

I never said that med school is too expensive (though it's way too expensive) I said I school is too expensive. How many people choose not to go to school too fill many of theses positions because it's too expensive.

At least with trade school the time is shorter and you can collect ei while you go.

I'm not saying we shouldn't have immigration,we need it, but there are several solutions to solve these problems.

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by chedder

Foreign students are the cash cow of universities.

I'm not even talking about foreign students. Bring foreign students, allow immigration but also expand the programs here.

We should open more seats etc here first, then look at immigration in my opinion.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

People are excluded in fields like medicine and engineering because there are actual consequences when those professionals #### up on the job.

The people that don’t get into medical school on the first try and come back and get it in round 2 will be better physicians for that experience.

Nah, it's a fairly arbitrary cutoff line. Of the ~300 successful applicants each year, maybe 10 will become kinda ####ty doctors. If we accepted the next 30 best applicants there's no reason to believe more than 1 of them would become ####ty.

Now if we doubled to 600 then sure, there might be a slightly higher rate of #### apples from ranks 501-600...but hard to say how significant it would even be. They still have to pass exams and demonstrate competence throughout training before they get a license to practice independently.


And not getting accepted at first doesn't really change anything about the kind of doctor you'll become.

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I like that the theory of the Saddledome being immediately dangerous to the point that an accident could happen at any moment killing multiple people is being used as a defence for spending taxpayer money to build a new arena over the next 3-5 years…

…and not as a reason the City should immediately condemn it or CSEC should stop requiring staff to be there and letting thousands of members of the public in almost daily.

We’re in the realm of geniuses.

It really makes one wonder why CSEC dragged their feet for so long, as an imminently crumbling Saddledome is an existential threat for them. But I suppose it is possible that they actually are that incompetent.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I like that the theory of the Saddledome being immediately dangerous to the point that an accident could happen at any moment killing multiple people is being used as a defence for spending taxpayer money to build a new arena over the next 3-5 years…

…and not as a reason the City should immediately condemn it or CSEC should stop requiring staff to be there and letting thousands of members of the public in almost daily.

We’re in the realm of geniuses.

The safe thing to do would be to move all Flames home games to Edmonton’s new rink until our new one is built. The Saddledome is just too dangerous for people to go watch hockey in it right now.

[Redlan]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I like that the theory of the Saddledome being immediately dangerous to the point that an accident could happen at any moment killing multiple people is being used as a defence for spending taxpayer money to build a new arena over the next 3-5 years…

…and not as a reason the City should immediately condemn it or CSEC should stop requiring staff to be there and letting thousands of members of the public in almost daily.

We’re in the realm of geniuses.

I never said that.

I have to remind myself everyday, 50% of the people on this planet are below average intelligence. There are a lot of posts here that make me believe that the percentage of that population is far more represented and also like to yell the loudest and most often.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Redlan

Do you know why things are called accidents? Because they are unexpected events. Also, this has the same vibe as: "This is why this is all so strange, you never, ever would have expected [this]" - former classmate of Matthew de Grood.

The Saddledome being compared to a mass murderer…..

[Redlan]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

The Saddledome being compared to a mass murderer…..

That’s a big leap. Should I connect the dots for you?

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Redlan

That’s a big leap. Should I connect the dots for you?

Sure, you said there could be unexpected events when it comes to the Saddledome. You then said it has the same vibe as when neighbours said they did not expect their neighbor to be a mass murderer.

[powderjunkie]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

The Saddledome being compared to a mass murderer…..

Just remind yourself, that poster is in one 50% IQ group or the other one...

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

The safe thing to do would be to move all Flames home games to Edmonton’s new rink until our new one is built. The Saddledome is just too dangerous for people to go watch hockey in it right now.

Would rather the team move to Houston.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Would rather the team move to Houston.

Well we have to do something, the Saddledome is a death trap that can’t be trusted, there is falling concrete.